Over the last 20 years, obesity rates have doubled in adults, and tripled in Adolescents. More than 65% of Americans are now overweight or obese. How did we get to be so huge, and how can we fix it? We live in a very toxic food Environment, where we are consuming too much of the wrong foods, larger portions and high consumption of fast foods and processed foods... Our food choices are not only causing obesity rates to soar, but causing malnutrition among our children, and our society. On the other side of the story, as per Mayo clinic study, anorexia nervosa, also increasing by 36 percent every 5 years since 1950. The documentary film, “supersize me”, is “Morgan Spurlock’s” funny, surprising and thoroughly effective documentary about America's unhealthy love affair with fast food. The film is an experiment: What would happen if you ate nothing but McDonald's food, three meals a day, for an entire month? Spurlock does just this. His rules are that he must eat three meals a day, he can ONLY eat food from the McDonald's menu he must super-size when asked, and he must eat everything on the menu at least once He interviews the son of Robbins, who is now a health expert after having grown up on ice cream and feeling sick all the time. He investigates junk food in public schools, including the USDA-provided school lunches, which Spurlock discovers are nearly as unhealthy as letting kids choose items from vending machines. He goes to Texas, home to six of the nation's 20 fattest cities and he makes repeated phone calls to McDonald's headquarters to get their side of the story for the film. His calls are not returned. The most entertaining highlights, though, are of Spurlock eating, and trying to eat, and wishing he could stop eating, McDonald's food. We track his progress, his weight gain, his inability to walk up stairs easily, and his girlfriend reports on the sexual side effects. He learns the food has an addictive effect on him, and his teams of doctors -- who checked him out beforehand and pronounced him in fantastic health -- are positively STUNNED at the effects his insane diet produces. And in the documentary film, “Dying to be thin", In its exploration of anorexia and bulimia, Dying to Be Thin offers first-person accounts from people whose work makes them especially susceptible to eating disorders, particularly dancers, who are often expected to maintain their weight nearly 15 percent below the recommended ideal for their height. The program examines the roots of these disorders, the toll they take on the body and new, increasingly necessary treatments: According to a Mayo Clinic study, anorexia has been increasing by 36 percent every five years since the 1950s.Aneroxia and bulimia, a complex psychiatric disorder with its complex physical complications requires an interdisciplinary approach and treatment, including a psychiatrist, physicians, nurses, dietitians etc. This documentary features how the cultural, job related influences behind this eating disorders, and how adversely it affect people, how malnourished they are and how they lose their life in early age due to severe physical and, physiological complications. Both documentaries, centered to the extreme end of nutritional disorder, Obesity, and on the other end, anorexia and bulimia, but it has many similarities. Let us explore the similarities about these two documentaries. Similarities

I.Both are featuring about eating disorders, and both in one way or other deprive body’s nutrients. In the film, Supersize me” the diet is packed with only Trans and saturated fats. The diet is lacking, vitamins, minerals, fibers, which could have obtained from fruits, vegetables etc. In Dying to be thin”, all nutrients, body’s required fat, carbohydrate, protein, all energy yielding nutrients along with other microelements, vitamins, minerals are missing. Ultimately both documentaries pinpoint the importance of a good...

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...SupersizeMe
The golden arches, the taco bell dog, the Wendy’s girl, and many other symbols have become well known in our society. Everywhere you turn there is a fast food restaurant waiting to take your order. With Americas growing obesity rate you would think peoples willingness to eat fast food would die down, but it has not. I chose the documentary, SupersizeMe because it shows what fast food does to our bodies and I think that Americans need to see those horrible effects. The film, SupersizeMe, follows Morgan Spurlock who sets out to eat McDonalds three times a day for thirty days straight and if given the option to supersize his meal, he has to say yes. The documentary SupersizeMe shows the negative results of eating fast food on a person’s body not only physically but also psychologically.
Morgan Spurlock’s experiment tests the words of McDonald’s spokespersons who claim there food is perfectly healthy and nutritious. Spurlock’s purpose is to prove them right or wrong-if it is healthy he should have no negative side effects from eating it thirty days straight. Most Americans indulge in fast food, so is this contributing to the growing obesity rate? SupersizeMe gives us a look into the unhealthy relationship America has with fast food. It may not stop us from pulling into the drive through but it...

...﻿Turquoise Teagle
March 17, 2014
Michael Glenning
English Composition II
Would You Like To Super Size That?
What if you ate fast food every day? What if you ate it three times a day for thirty days? After recently watching Super Size Me, a documentary that depicts a problem which is now on the road to overtake smoking as the largest cause of preventable deaths in the U.S., I can say that like Morgan Spurlock, director of Super Size Me, there is a likely chance that the experience would not end pleasantly. In fact, the information provided in this documentary short through Spurlock's research is informative and shocking to some health professionals as well as people on the streets.
Spurlock starts his journey with a few simple rules:
No options: He could only eat what was available over the counter (water included).
No super-sizing unless offered.
No excuses: He had to eat every item on the menu at least once.
No giving up: He had to eat three square meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner.
To assist in carefully watching his health and studies, Spurlock employed three doctors to assist him during his journey: a gastroenterologist, a cardiologist, and a general practitioner. All of which agreed that Spurlock was starting this mission with his body being in “above average” health. Some people may ask themselves, why would this above healthy man decide to intentionally make his sustain through liver damage, stomach pains,...

...Anorexia: Dying to be Thin
by Kati McConville
It was eight o'clock in the morning and it was time for Amy to wake up because she was going out to breakfast with her mother. This was something she hated doing. It wasn't because she didn't want to wake up early or she didn't want to be with her mother, it was something much deeper than that. For the past three years Amy has been struggling with an eating disorder, an endless cycle of fasting, bingeing, purging, pretty much complete misery. Amy hated eating in front of people. Well, quite frankly, she hated eating period. She couldn't stand the unbelievable amount of guilt she felt after any sort of food touched her lips. It wasn't possible to chew a piece of sugar less gum without thinking about the five calories her body was absorbing. She operated on a very routine daily schedule. She spent many hours a day browsing pro-eating disorder web sites. These sites helped Amy keep her mind off her growling stomach. She printed out pictures of dangerously skinny celebrities and put them inside her journal that was labeled "Thinspiration." Every day she posts online her total daily food consumption and the calories, fat, protein and carbohydrates associated with it. Many girls take part in these rituals to keep inspired to stay thin. They've become outrageously popular in past years, receiving thousands of hits each day. These girls are essentially helping each other...

...Dying To Be Thin: Anorexia Nervosa
The individual may not recognize that her weight loss or not eating at all is a problem. Anorexics may be afraid of losing control over the amount of food they eat; thus, they want to control their emotions, and reactions to their emotions. Stacy was a beautiful 16-year-old girl. At that age everyone adored her: her friends, her teachers, her parents, etc. She was on the honor roll in school. She was very athletic, being on the track team, soccer team, and the girls’ baseball team. She was also musically talented; she was on the choir and played the piano. Towards the middle of our sophomore year in high school, her friends began to notice that she was losing a lot of weight. Thinking that she was on a diet, they complimented her on her weight loss. Then they noticed that she was not only getting thin, but acting differently too. She stopped hanging out with them, because she wanted to be more by herself now. Stacy became even thinner and paler .She began to look quite sick. Her mother immediately made an appointment with the family doctor. However, it was not easy to persuade Stacy to go see the doctor. She did not believe anything was wrong with her. In fact, she was so happy with her weight loss that she planned to go on dieting.
People like Stacy living with the illness often have a low self-esteem and a great need to control their surroundings and emotions. Usually, the Eating Disorder...

...Summary
Experimental design is a process by which a researcher takes a hypothesis, designs an experiment to test for the hypothesis, collects the data from the experiment, analyzes it and draws conclusions about the results. It is used to determine cause and effect and is used in all forms of science from physics and biology to psychology and sociology.
In the documentary film SuperSizeMe, Morgan Spurlock's objective is to see what happens to his health after thirty days of eating only food from McDonald's.
Parts of Experiment
Spurlock's independent variable is the change in his eating habits to be exclusive to McDonald's items. As a second independent variable, Spurlock reduces the amount of walking he does from 4-5 miles a day to approximately 1.5 miles to be more typical of the average corporate worker.
The dependent variable in Spurlock's experiment is his health. Because the experiment is designed to answer whether fast food can be healthy, his overall physical and mental health are what will be monitored and measured.
Spurlock meets with three independent doctors to measure his health for the pretest. He also consults with a nutritionist and an exercise physiologist for more information. The results were recorded by each specialist before he applied the treatment. He returns to each doctor during the test and at the end of the thirty days to have his final measurements taken. This is the posttest.
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... Super Size Me, a 2004 documentary of “epic portions” that was produced and created by an independent director, Morgan Spurlock. Super Size Me is a film where Morgan Spurlock examines the world of fast foods. He uses himself as a guinea pig exploring the different effects of substituting meals for McDonald’s for thirty days. The film presented various of themes but one theme that clearly stood out was fast food being a threat to the public health through obesity and addiction. The theme was supported by the use of different conventions such as professional/ talking head interview, montage and jiggly camera.
It is showed to us that these junk we eat from McDonald’s in particularly or any other fast food is a threat to our health, resulting in different kinds of diseases, mental disorder and may also result to death. This is clearly presented through the convention, experts/talking heads. Several doctors, dietitians, lawyers, school directors, surgeons, lunch providers, nutritionist and anyone who plays a part in the clash of fast food companies and public health were interviewed and showed. They all recognise that these fast foods are a threat to our daily lives which is some of the main causes of the different effects and consequences that are clearly dangerous to public health. The variety of talking head interviews allow the viewers to understand more of the dangers of these junk foods which is a poison to our health. A lawyer...

...﻿“Supersizeme” Opinion
I felt like supersizeme was a great way to finally educate consumers a little bit about how their food is made and to make more conscious decisions when deciding what to eat. It also made me feel disgusted with fast food in general and made me think twice before putting my money in their pockets for something that you just put in your mouth and can’t be called actual food because it isn’t food and has little to no nutritional value.
I think that this documentary goes even farther beyond just nutritional value of McDonalds products. I think that it sheds light to the public on what not only McDonalds is about but corporate America in general. It’s essential for them to keep things that go on behind the scenes hidden from the public because if the public were to find out, most corporations would take a huge downfall and have to handle an ocean full of lawsuits. Fast food becomes a part of society in the way its easily accessible and so frequent in everything we do. Their names become part of our language, their symbols become part of our sightseeing, their slogans become our new top-forty songs, and their food becomes our new staple food. They are so synonymous with everyday life now that it’s no surprise to see 5 Burger Kings in one town, but only one hospital and 2 schools. Family and friends see the restaurants as nothing out of the ordinary, and they see it as...

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SupersizeMeSupersizeMe is the perfect movie to watch to understand the importance of diet and eating habits. It teaches us specifically about the dangers of fast food as well as what foods are better options! SupersizeMe is a great teaching tool for all who watch. This documentary shows us the risks of eating fast food, specifically McDonald’s. Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s fast food for thirty days straight. He gained 25 pounds and also doubled his chances for heart disease, which shocked me. I knew that fast food was terrible, but that quick of a weight gain plus the drastic increase for chances of heart disease was astounding. It took Morgan 14 months to lose his extra weight and he said it was nothing close to being easy, which I can believe. The fact that forty percent of meals are eaten out of the house daily is a crazy statistic and one that I believe should not exist! I completely agree that fast food is a problem that contributes to obesity. As the documentary stated, sixty percent of overweight people eat fast food consistently.
I am very glad that this documentary included ways schools are affecting obesity in their students, as I think that bad eating habits start at a young age. Any chance to decrease obesity and poor health due to diet is a positive change, and I salute the schools that are trying to do so. Some schools have banned soda...